NerdHeist 2011: Razer Blade prototypes stolen from Razer R&D

@Drakkenfyre
It does not have an atom processor.

@Drakkenfyre
You clearly have this confused with another one of Razer's products.

@Drakkenfyre
I beleive you are thinking of the Switchblade which is just a concept as far as i kno. The Blade has a Core i7.

@Drakkenfyre Core i7, 8GB, and a discrete graphics card, actually.

@Drakkenfyre

Checking, yes, it was the Switchblade. Which is going to be worthless.

@Drakkenfyre
Clearly you've never purchased a Razer product. Everything they make is superbly built, but expensive as hell. Not many manufacturers can pack so much horsepower into a product thinner than a macbook and still call it a gaming laptop. The Switchblade UI seen in CES was just a prototype. That small thing will never see the light of day, but took the form of that UI for the better. Get your shit straight about the Blade before trolling, as well as question your definition of value.

Yes, I do have a Razer product.

And who the !@#$ is trolling? The story is talking about the Blade, with it's special keyboard. I confused it with the Switchblade, which they ANNOUNCED as a concept but it was going to be an actual product.

Maybe you need to go read up on the Switchblade. It is not just a UI. It's an actual netbook they claimed would be a gaming netbook, and they announced it's specs, and it was pathetic. It was running on an Intel Atom. They demonstrated it by running WarCraft 3 and Quake Live on it. It was going to end up being some $3000 piece of shit only with a special keyboard to claim it's special. You don't freaking announce specs on a system that's only being used as a concept piece to display a new type of keyboard. They hyped the hell out of it being the first "gaming netbook".

@Drakkenfyre
Yeah, I've read the PR back during CES '11, and of the deal between Razer and Intel that created the Switchblade concept. All they've ever said is that it's using an Atom processor. They've also said that it's a concept design, not ready for consumer use. That was then, and today we have the Razer Blade with hotkeys that bears the name "Switchblade UI," giving me the impression that the concept design took a different form and the netbook we saw January may be in limbo. Sorry for getting on your case, but I don't think we're on the same page. This is the Razer Blade, not the Switchblade. I think you missed the image gallery.

You need to go up about three comments, where I realized it was the Blade and not the Switchblade.

Someone already said it, and I said I did mistake the two.

@Drakkenfyre
I did miss that part since you were still talking about the switchblade concept. It is for the better if the switchblade doesn't come out any time soon, as netbooks are just horrible in terms of performance that won't improve with the tablet craze. The Blade is expensive as hell, but a lot went into squeezing it down to something so thin. Both of these prototypes have a lot to live up to.

@Drakkenfyre

Hey kiddo, remember me?

Your very last post about the Avenger Controller (PS3 version) Feb 2011 states that it will break the triggers on the controller. Simply go to Amazon and do a search of the Avenger Controller and see how high it's product rating is by Real Consumers of Real Products who actually do Real Research in the Real World, and not just prepubescent never never land make believers who hide behind their unfounded, undocumented, uneducated and ignorant opines whose flawed armor peels away with the weathering of time and history.

Fellas, read the anecdote below, this is a Real Repost, and I think it points to the REAL(ality) that Drakkenfyre lives in an unREAL world as fictitious as the childlike games he espouses upon.

Oh and incidentally, I'm still waiting on any takers...

Posted: Nov 12th 2010 8:30AM Drakkenfyre said

@gmof

Please tell me you are joking. Please.

Snap-on controller accessories went out of style in the NES days. They sucked then, they suck now. They are about as useful as a "slowmo" feature on a controller which does nothing more than pause and unpause the game rapidly.

The item in the pictures is probably a cheap piece of shit, that will fall off and break at the slightest thing. It's also way overpriced, and costs more than the damn controller to begin with.

Maybe you are too young to remember. Stuff like this, controller accessories you snap on, were done TWENTY YEARS ago. Do you see them still around? Do you see a huge market for them? Do you see anything past the fake sporting accessories snapping on the Wii controller?

And after watching the video, it will probably eventually break the analog triggers due to constant stress all the time. You are loading down the springs, and keeping tension on them all the time. Over time that is going to weaken them, and may eventually destroy them completely.

It has uses for disabled gamers, I am all for that. If it helps someone with controller problems, that's great. But to proclaim "this will revolutionize gaming forever!" shows a lack of understanding how stuff like this was attempted before, and failed. Especially considering it costs more than the controller itself.
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Posted: Nov 15th 2010 12:22AM gmof said

And laughing at you Hivetyrant -but the poor house ain't so funny... honey?

@Drakkenfyre Particularly, and the other skeptical @#$%heads in this pre-pubescent forum.

1) I have never played an Xbox game-ever (I have been occupied as a professional trader on Wall street for the last 16 years-The Real Game, For Real Men.

2) So let's play a REAL GAME. You choose the escrow company. You can all collude together, as many strong as you like. Again, you choose the escrow company. WE (that means me, myself and you collectively, you big shot hiding begind your keyboard most probably adolescent wet behind the ears feigning experience know it alls who play fictitious games in never never land-that was a literal reference Drakkenfyre to Peter Pan as I see your Shakespearean master of the English prose reminds me of the Harvard student in Goodwill Hunting who tries to show up Will in front of his coy co-eds only to be humiliated by Will's extensive knowledge of the subject he espouses-and comedically to boot is asked by Will after being made a fool of if he likes apples, and after affirming so is told by Will that he got the phone numbers of the girls he was showing off to-how do you like them apples) each place $1,000,000 in escrow. Just so you don't say you did not understand my offer, here it is again. You and I each place a million USD in an escrow account for a REAL BET.

3) I bet the Avenger Controller makes ANY Xbox player better (so there is no discrepancy we will use the term better to mean: quicker, more efficient, more dexterous or agile and score more points or kills or the count measure of the particular game.

@Negatron-You can have a side bet with me-$5million REAL USD in an escrow account to see if this overpriced 8th grade project not only works but makes you a much better player. (Here' a hint Negatron, the inventor of the Avenger sold a previous product he invented unrelated to gaming that move 4 million units at about $10 each-you can multiply can't you? But you KNOW IT ALLS are full of too much ego and macho to heed a warning-even an educated one-on Wall Street we call this arbitrage-a riskless transaction with an inherent guaranteed return-but your big balls won't allow you to avoid disaster and blow yourself up as the crowd fades you into a pine box-so do me a big favor ey, take the bet.

@original fred-Oh Frederick, the transfer of your net worth (even if it currently is negative-this means your liabilities {you do have credit don't you, a debit card, school loan-you must have some formal education} are outweighed by your assets) from your pocket to mine will be the most entertaining. To quote you, "Guys I'm like 90% sure he's joking. Note the "I'm the inventors best friend" . So Frederick my friend, let's take the $5 million USD I win from Negatron and we go double or nothing. If you all haven't realized by now, I AM DEAD SERIOUS. $5 million USD Fred, to see if I am really the Inventor's best friend. I'll give you my experience as a veteran trader Fred, who has made his living and moderate fortune putting his own money and where his mouth is every day for 16 long hard years in bull, bear and flat markets-that 90% percent number you're pretty sure of goes down exponentially with every REAL dollar that is on the REAL line-not the phony enemy lines in your fantasy call of duties.

p.s. I only stumbled upon this site as I was helping my friend (the inventor-one last generous hint Fred) test how negative comments (even baseless one's-one made without having tried oneself or witnessed another-very dangerous as you are all apparently so aged and wise and full of experience to understand the danger of prejudice and hearsay historically throughout mankind) might be righted through positive counter-reactions. I will check back periodically to see if I have any REAL takers.

@Drakkenfyre

Oh and just so the others reading are clear and understand fully: This is a repost from Nov 2010 not 2011, over a year ago. You see, accuracy is validation through time and so one must be patient to be successful. Perhaps I will follow up in another year to see where things stand, ey Drakkenfyre?

@gmof

You actually posted a reply to a comment made over a year ago, simply because I insulted your gimmicky-style controller attachment that has had similiar, albeit slightly less complex type of attachements before. That's pretty pathetic.

You admit you don't play games. Guess what, we have seen controller snap-on accessories like that before. They failed. I don't give a flying !@#$ about your "Wall Street smarts". Your product looks gimmicky, and almost all attachements for controllers, consoles, and console add-ons such as the Sega CD failed.

The site posted about a controller add-on. It mentioned it's uses for disabled gamers. I said that was a great thing. But the creator acting like it was going to be a revolution in controllers and it could make anyone a better player over anyone without one was typical inventor overconfidence. See, you might not get this, since you said you don't play XBox or games in general (hey, I don't play XBox either, I don't own one) but we have seen these kind of accessories over and over again. None of them have made significant advancements on controllers. Even official add-ons from the companies themselves usually fail.

You took a criticism personally because apparantly you know the creator personally. You then replied a year later in an unrelated story in an unrelated comment thread and you even expected the original people to see it. Hell, some of those people you mentioned I don't think even post here anymore. You have failed.

I am sorry to say, if you let a criticism of your friend's product anger you so much you come back to a site just to rage anger at us, and challenge us with a useless "Wall Street" show of power, as if your job somehow invalidates the opinion of gamers who have seen similiar kinds of things over and over again, and try to show how more "power" you have simply because of your job, I would hate to be the kind of person who has investments with you.

@Scuffles exzactly what I was thinking

@Scuffles

Viral marketing for a Syndicate-branded edition of the Blade, no doubt.